According to Forbes, employees who had full schedule flexibility showed 29% higher productivity and a 53% improvement in focus. Flexible work is one of those things that almost everyone wants, and almost no one agrees on how to do well.
Employees want freedom over their schedule. Managers want to know work is actually getting done. Companies want both without creating a culture that feels like it runs on distrust.
The tension is real, and most teams handle it by swinging to one extreme or the other. Either flexibility is unlimited, and accountability quietly disappears, or flexibility exists in theory, but the expectation is that everyone is online from nine to five anyway. [Read more…] about Derribar Ventures Limited’s Approach to Flexible Work Without Losing Productivity
